Game device.



H. ACHERSHAUG.

GAME DEViCE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. I7, 1915- Patented Feb. 8, 1916.

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To all whom it may concern: v I

Be it known that I, HA voR AoHnRsHAUc, asubject of the King of Norway, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and'State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Game Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principalobjects which the present invention has in view are: To pro vide adevice of the character mentioned, the use of which provides exercise for; the

la erto rovide means for au mentin the propelling force applied to an article to be thrown; to provide means for attaching a ball or other article in flight; to provide attaching and throwing sections in the same device; and to simplifytheconstruction of the device. w v

Drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device constructed-and arranged in accordance with thepresentinvention, showing the same in position preliminary to ejecting therefrom the projectile; Fig.- 2 is a perspective view showing-the device in the position assumed immediately succeeding the ejection of the article tobe thrown; Fig.

3 is a modified form of the invention, showing a novel arrangement of the net catching sections and the projectile pocket therefor.

Descriptz'0n.-As seen in the drawings, the device employs two sections 8 of relatively soft, open-mesh netting. The netting sections 8 are bound at the side edges to whipcords 9 of relatively greater strength than the body of the sections 8. The outer ends of said sections 8 are bound about the cross bars 10 ofsling loops 11. The inner ends of the sections 8 are bound on the side bars of a cradle 12.

The cradle 12 is formed from spring wire bent upon itself at the outer ends 13 and adj acent the bowed sections 14:, the-latter bends being arranged to form eyelets 15'. The eyelets 15 are independently connected by cords 16 with the whip-cords 9, the object being to transfer the force applied .to said whipcords directly upon the center of the'cradle 12 at the instant when the projectile is leaving the device and after movement has been imparted to said projectile by the stretching of the sections 8 to the position substantially as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. This action induced by the cords 16 and 9 may be described as snapping the projectile in imitation of a thrown base-ball at the moment Specification of Letters Patent.

- PatentedFeb.,8,1916.

App1ieationfi1edApri1-17,1915. Seria1No.22,037. i v

I when the projectile is passing from the de- I vvice. The'snap thus imparted to the proare also held in the hand-grips 1 8 ina man- 7 I ner similar to the mounting for the loops 11, and areset backfrom the normal or relaxed position of said loops'll, to engage the same only when deflected from the normal plane fby-the strainqon the sections '8 and whip:

cords 9. The relative arrangement of the loops 19 and 20 is such that the cross bar of the loop 19 engages the side bars of the loops 1 1 prior to the cross bars of the loops 20 engaging the side bars of the loops 11. The instant of engagement of the loops 20 with the side bars of the loops ll'is" after the I 8 strain on the whip-cords 9 and ,sections'8 is suflicient to deflect both the loops 11 and 19. Opemzfz'ma Having a device constructed and arranged as above described and as shownin the accompanying drawings, the

operation thereof is as follows The projectile such as the ball 17 is placed in the cradle 12 and between the bowed sections 14 thereof. The netting sections 8 and parts connected therewith are relaxed, theoperator having the-hand-grips 18 heldin a relatively upright position. YThe netting sections 8 and loops 11, 19, and 20 are now carried by the operator, over his head and'to the rear thereof. To throw the projectile, the sections are now operated as a sling; By violently advancing the nettingsections 8 and: cradle 12, and simultaneously spreading the hand grips 18 at the end of the advance, it will be found that the l'oopsll, 19 and 20 are. all deflected while the netting sections 8, whip-cords 9 and cradle 12 are drawn to a tense or delivering position. It will also be observed that, as above stated, at the latter the drawings, the netting sections 21 are converged upon the eyelets 15, while the cradle 12 has formed at the outer ends thereof eyelets 22, through which the whip-cords 9 are threaded. In many instances an augmented action is produced upon the cradle 12 by directly connecting the eyelets 15 0f the center of said cradle with the springy structure of the netting sections 21.

The operation of the device when throwing the projectile has been described. The device is likewise employed for catching a projectile when in flight, the netting sections 8 and 21 being used for this purpose. Great skill may be acquired in presenting these sections in the path of a traveling object, and by quickly straightening the sections, transferring the projectile to the cradle 12 and the central or pocketed portion thereof, from which. it may be quickly returned in the direction from which it was received. In this manner great rapidity of transfer of a ball is provided for, requiring the players to be constantly on the alert, as the result of the game provides that the ball 17 is almost immediately returned to the player after having been projected by him to another player.

Due to the full-arm movement which the device permitsin tossing or ejecting the ball, and to the reinforced, resilient loops .and connectlve structure, a ball may be thrown with great violence and when skill is acquired, with great accuracy, thus lending zest and pleasure to a game involving the use of the device. While I have herein described the projectile as the ball 17', it will be understood that any form of projectile may be employed. In many instances it has been found that balls of cotton of sufiicient weight to be practicable may be thrown to persons in peril of fire or in danger of drowning, a free end of the cotton being retained atthe station from which the ball is thrown, to be there attached to a hanger line, by means of which the saving is to be effected.

Claims:

l. A device as characterized, comprising a plurality of resilient handles, each embodying a plurality of resilient, reinforcing members, said members being spaced from each other; and a flexible structure connectlng said handles at the extremities thereof.

2. A device as characterized, comprising a plurality of resilient handles, each embodying a plurality of resilient, reinforcing members, said. members being spaced from each other; a flexible structure connecting said handles at the extremities thereof; and a cradle-like member incorporated in said connecting structure for receiving therefrom a projectile.

3. A device ascharacterized, comprising a plurality of resilient handles, each em bodying a plurality of resilient, reinforcing members, said members being spaced from each other; a flexible structure connecting said handle at the extremities thereof; a cradle-like member incorporated in said connecting structure for receiving therefrom a projectile a plurality of whip-cords operatively connecting said handles and the outerends of said cradle; and a plurality of connecting cords operatively connecting said whip-cords and the center of said cradle for imparting to the center of said cradle a full force of the strain on said whip-cords at the moment of delivery of a projectile from said cradle.

l. A device as characterized, comprising a plurality of resilient handles; a skeleton cradle constructed from resilient material and having lateral extensions bowed in the direction of operation of said device; and a plurality of flexible, non-resilient sections operatively connecting said cradle and saic handles for catching in flifght a projectile and delivering the same to said cradle.

5. A device as characterized, comprising a plurality of resilient handles; a skeleton cradle constructed from resilient material and having lateral extensions bowed in the direction of operation of said device; and a plurality of netting sections operatively connecting each of said handles and one side of said cradle, said netting sections being adapted for catching a projectile in flight, and arranged to deliver the same when caught, to said cradle.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

E. F. MURnocK, G. H. EMSLIE.

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